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    Texas Tech’s emphatic win over BYU has put the selection committee on notice.

    Douglas Farmer - Betting Analyst at Covers

    Nov 11, 2025 • 20:26 ET

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    The College Football Playoff selection committee has released its second-week rankings, with Texas Tech’s latest Big 12 win making headlines in the college football odds.

    However, the top of the National Championship odds board remained unaffected by Tuesday’s changes.

    College Football Playoff odds

    Biggest Riser

    Texas Tech jumped to No. 6 in the committee rankings, up from No. 8 a week ago. That comes from blowing out the No. 7 team in the country, knocking BYU back to No. 12. However, the Red Raiders’ odds before the release show were +1700 to win the national championship, and they remain at +1700 at FanDuel after the rankings release.

    The only notable odds to shorten from the show were Texas’s, at No. 10 in the rankings and currently the last team slipping into the Playoff. Before the rankings release, the Longhorns were listed at +3300 to win the national championship. Sitting at No. 10 shortened those to +3000.

    Texas needs to at least split its dates with Georgia and Texas A&M to remain in the Playoff field, but if the Longhorns manage one such upset, their odds would shorten considerably further.

    Biggest Drop

    BYU’s national title odds were devastated by that blowout loss to Texas Tech, but Oregon and Indiana were not impacted by their close calls last weekend.

    Meanwhile, Alabama moved to +950 from +900, Notre Dame fell to +1200 from +1100, and Mississippi was knocked down to +1900 from +1800.

    None of those are massive moves, but they are still worth noting. Frankly, they are overreactions, and if thinking about one of those bets, this may be the right moment to grab it.

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    Douglas Farmer

    Douglas Farmer spends his days thinking about college football and his nights thinking about the NBA. His betting habits and coverage follow that same pattern. He covered Notre Dame football for various outlets from 2008 to 2024, most notably spending eight seasons as NBC Sports’ beat writer on the Irish. That was also when his gambling focus took off. Knowing there were veteran beat writers with three decades more experience than he had, Douglas found his niche by best recognizing Notre Dame’s standing in each year’s national landscape, a complex tapestry most easily understood and remembered via betting odds.

    In 2021, that interest created a freelance opportunity with Covers, a role that eventually led to Douglas joining the company full-time in 2023. In the fall, Douglas will place five or six dozen bets each week, a disproportionate amount via BetRivers because the operator tends to have lines slightly different than the rest of the market. The same can be said of Circa Sports’ futures markets.

    While Douglas is an avid NBA fan and covers the league throughout the year, the vast majority of his bets are on college football, because that is the biggest key to sports betting: Know what you do not know.

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